THE HAMILTON LIGHT INFANTRY BAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1213, 8 April 1880, Page 2

THE HAMILTON LIGHT INFANTRY BAND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — I am somewhat puzzled by your local of last issue, in which you say that the Band is anxious that promiaers qf subscriptions shall at once become payers in order that the debt due on the instruments may be cleared off, and that the Band are not prepared to tjivc their ser« vices at conceits, &c, when the instruments are not their own property, and they consider they are right in dividing among themselves the proceeds of the late concert and the Easter Monday picnic. May I as* if there be any responsible head? Is the Band really an amattur company of miustrels, or under recognised authority? If the latter, then, surely, those in authority should see that promisers of subscriptions should become payers, and that a certain proportion of profits accruing from entertainments b,e applied to retiring bills. lam qf opinion that the officers of the Hamilton Light Infantry should take some little interest in the well-being of their band ; but, as usual, Hamilton makes a great f uas and collects a little money, and tjjea leayes. the rest to its particular providence and poor old Grwynne. — 1 am, &c, Flageolet.